Portable skid.



No. 718,295. 7 I PATENTED JAN. 13; 1903 J. WILLIAMS & J. BUTLER.

PORTABLE SKID.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 9, 1901.

NO MODEL.

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JEFF WILLIAMS AND JOHN BUTLER, OF RUSK, TEXAS.

PORTABLE SKID.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No. 718,295, dated January13, 1903.

Application filed November 9, 1901- Serial No. 81,709. No model-J To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J EFF .WILLIAMs and JOHN BUTLER, citizens of theUnited States,

' residing at Rusk, (Box 103,) in thecoun'ty of conveniently controlledby a single person through the medium of a movable weight equal to or inexcess of the weight of the halo or other object. 7

Other objects, as well as the novel details ofcons'truction, will bepointed out hereinafter, illustrated in the accompanying draw,-

' ings, and defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a skid orplatform constructed in accordance with our invention, showing theplatform in a horizontal position. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of thesame. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the invention in a position toreceive the bale or other object from the ground prior to elevating thesame.

1 designates a suitable base-frame upon which is pivotally mountedastandard 2, supporting a horizontal and laterally-pivoted platform 3,fulcrumed to said standard at 4:. The standard fits into the collar orsocket 1 in the top of the frame 1, so that the platform may be swung ona lateral plane. Opposite the fulcrum-point and carried. by the platform3 is a pair of standards 5 and 6, in which is journaled a shaft 7,carrying a winding-drum 8, having a peripheral gear 9 at one endthereof. Immediately above this drum and carried by the standard 5 is agear-wheel 10, meshing with the gear 9 of the drum 8. The gear 9 isactuated by a suitable crank 11 for the purpose of driving the drum towind a cord or cable 12, which passes around said drum and also aroundan idle roller 13, journaled at one end of the platform 3 in suitablebearings 14. The respective ends of the cable 12 are attached to aweighted car 15, traveling on guides or tracks 16, .positioned on theplatform 3 at one side of the fulcrumpoint thereof. The opposite end ofthe platform is designed to receive bales, boxes, barrels, or similardevices, either when the platform is in a horizontal position or in aninclined position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

If it is desired to raise a Weighted article from the ground to ahorizontal plane-as, for instance, opposite a wagon-bodythe article isrolled or placed upon one end of the platform, the weighted car'12 beingconveyed through the medium of the drum and cord near the fulcrum-pointthereof. In order to raise the article, the operator turns the crank 11and conveys the car toward the extreme end of the platform, and theweight of the car will be sufficient to cause the platform to assume ahorizontal plane, as shown in Fig. 1, when it maybe propped in saidposition through the medium of a pivoted arm 17, carried by thebase-frame 1 and the free end of which is adapted to engage a notch 18in the lower side of the platform 3. In order to limit the downwardmovement of the weighted end of the platform, we provide legs orstandards 19 thereon, which will only permit the platform to assume ahorizontal plane when the weighted car overcomes the weight on theopposite end of said platform.

If it is desired to lower a weighted article from an elevated support tothe ground, the weighted car will be conveyed to the end of theplatform, and after the article to be lowered is placed upon theopposite end the operator will grind the car toward the fulcrumpointasufficient distance to balance the said platform, and by moving the cara slight distance farther toward the fulcrum-point the weight of theopposite end will be sufficient to overcome that of the car and theplatform will assume an inclined position, as illustrated in Fig. 3.

In order to hold the Weight in a predetermined position, we provide apawl or dog 20 on one of the standards 5 or 6 to engage the gearwheel10. It will be noticed that the standard 2 supports the entire structureabove the base-frame, and inasmuch as the said standard is pivotallysecured to the same said platform may be swung on the arc of a circlethrough the medium of the handles 21.

From the foregoing it will be seen that we have provided a cheap,durable, and eflicient device for performing the service for which thisinvention is intended and one which may be conveniently operated byasingle person.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a base,a pivoted platform carried by said base, a weighted car on the platformand adapted to travel on one side of the fulcrum-point and means foractuating said car.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a base,a pivoted platform carried thereby, a traveling weight on the platformand adapted to travel on one side of the fulcrum-point thereof and acable and drum for actuating the weight.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a base;of a pivoted platform carried thereby, a revoluble drum on the platformintermediate the ends thereof, an idle roller on one end of theplatform, a

cable wound on the drum and roller, a traveling weight carried by saidplatform on one side of the fulcrum-point and secured to the cable andmeans for actuating the drum whereby the weight may be moved toward andaway from the fulcrum-point of said platform.

4:. In a device of the character described, the combination with a base,a pivoted standard secured thereto, a fulcrumed platform carried by thestandard, a drum positioned on the platform and above the fulcrumedpoint thereof, an idle roller on one end of said platform, a cable woundon the drum and roller, and a movable weight secured to the cable andadapted to be moved toward and away from the fulcrum-point of theplatform through the medium of the drum.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

h JEFF 2 WILLIAMS.

mark. JOHN BUTLER. Witnesses: i

W. P. ARDREY, J OE WELKERSON.

